So, there was this giant lizard with a leash wrapped around its neck and it slipped out of it and headed for parts unknown. Also unknown? Why this writer for the Yahoo! front page, who has a shaky vocabulary at best, is still employed:
This is a leash:
It attaches to an animal’s collar or harness. (The lizard actually broke the leash.) I wonder if the person who wrote this also thinks that a reel is the end of a fishing line that holds the bait.
Here we go again with more misinformation from the “journalists” at Yahoo! News:
Chris Christie was elected governor in 2009 and took office in 2010.
When Liza Minnelli appeared in “Liza With a Z: A Concert for Television” she probably thought everyone knew how to spell her surname, but not her first name. She may have been right back in 1972, but today she’d be wrong. Those cinema buffs at Yahoo! Movies can’t seem to get her last name right:
Maybe the heat is getting to the Yahoo! front page writer, who thinks that heatwave is a real word. It isn’t:
The same heat-related affliction struck someone over at Yahoo! Shine:
When it comes to writing about features, services, or products offered by the company you work for, be consistent in how you refer to them. Take a lesson from the folks on the Yahoo! front page: When it comes to a Yahoo! News feature called “Remake America,” they can’t decide how to treat it. It’s without quotation marks here:
Here’s the same info, but this writer decided that the title needs to be in quotation marks:
I’m really embarrassed for those writers and for Yahoo!. Can’t they decide how to write about their own product? Well, no, they can’t.
The most important thing to know about anything you read that was written by a Yahoo! staffer: Don’t believe it. You might assume because you read this on Yahoo! News that Dutch Ruppersberger is a Republican:
He’s not. (He’s a Democrat.) And you might assume that there’s a hotel in Washington, DC called JW Marriot. There isn’t. (But there is a JW Marriott.) And you might assume that the writer is familiar with basic English grammar. He’s not. (That “program that” should be “program, which.”)
And that’s what you need to know.
Terribly Write 